Friday, September 22, 2017

Therapy for individuals seeking
exit from homosexual behavior is approved in Brazil and media misleadingly
alleges that court ruled homosexuality is a disease

By Julio Severo

A Brazilian judge has ruled that psychologists
are free to help individuals seeking exit from homosexual behavior.

Even though the judge’s decision does
not say that homosexuality is a “disease” and that there is medical healing or
cure, the U.S. media, which has refused to publish his decision, has used
exactly such non-existent terms in the text.

Brasília-based Judge Waldemar
Claudio de Carvalho’s decision overruled a 1999 resolution from the Federal
Council of Psychology in Brazil (Brazilian Psychology Association) which prohibited
psychologists from treating the homosexual condition of their clients.

The 1999 draconian resolution says:

It establishes norms of conduct for
psychologists in regard to the subject of Sexual Orientation.

WHEREAS, homosexuality is not a disease,
disturbance or perversion;

WHEREAS, Psychology can and should
contribute through its knowledge to clarify the subjects of sexuality, helping
to overcome prejudices and discriminations;

It determines:

Article 2: Psychologists should contribute,
through their knowledge, to a reflection on prejudice and to the extinction of
discrimination and stigmatizations against those demonstrating homoerotic
behaviors or practices.

Article 3: Psychologists shall not use any
action for making homoerotic behaviors or practices pathological, nor shall
they use coercion to direct homosexuals to unsolicited treatments.

Sole paragraph: Psychologists shall not
collaborate with events and services proposing treatment and cures of
homosexualities.

Article 4: Psychologists shall not offer
their opinions, nor will they participate in public pronouncements, in the
media, with a view to reinforcing existing social prejudices in regard to
homosexuals as sufferers of psychic disorders.

Psychologists are forbidden to
express even their views about a hope for individuals seeking exit from
homosexual behavior.

Yet, they are not forbidden to collaborate
with communist events. Rogério Giannini, the president of the Federal Council
of Psychology, attended “I Foro Internacional de Psicología, Violencia y
Operaciones Psicológicas” (First International Forum of Psychology, Violence
and Psychologic Operations) in Venezuela on June 11-15, 2017, whose stated purpose was “to address the violence that
right-wing groups have intended to establish in Venezuela.”

Rogério Giannini and Nicolás Maduro

Communist dictator Nicolás Maduro
was himself present in the event. Giannini saw no problem to lend his support
to the communist congress of psychology to fight right-wing groups. And his
Federal Council of Psychology saw no problem to pay him thousands in the
Brazilian currency for helping him to travel and take part in the communist
event.

The international media, especially
the U.S. media, did not condemn Giannini’s participation in the communist
event. But when communist-minded Giannini expressed his view against the
judge’s injunction allowing psychologists to treat individuals seeking exit
from homosexual behavior, the international media praised him and quoted him as saying, “No way
to cure what is not a disease,” adding: “It is not a serious, academic debate,
it is a debate connected to religious or conservative positions.”

Contrary to Giannini’s allegations,
the judge’s injunction does advocate any “gay cure.”

Besides, communist-minded Giannini
treated debate disagreeing with his communist views as “not serious, not
academic” — which is a mindset typical of communists. He also treated Christian
and conservative positions as stances of second-class citizens, as if only
communists were real academicians and had monopoly on the academic debate.

Giannini’s far-left views should be
condemned by all the U.S. media.

What does the judge’s injunction
say?

It
“determines that the Federal Council of Psychology does not interpret [its
resolution] to hinder psychologists from promoting studies or giving
professional care, in a private setting, regarding to sexual (re) orientation,
thereby ensuring to them full scientific freedom about the subject, with no
censorship or prior permission from the Federal Council of Psychology.”

Full freedom to offer professional
care without any censorship. Is it too much? Obviously, it is not. But such
freedom causes nightmares in communist-minded individuals, who would prefer to
travel to Venezuela to lend their support to a “perfect” government that does
not offer full freedom and, instead, offers full censorship.

The injunction
became possible because Judge Waldemar Claudio
de Carvalho approved an appeal put forward by Rozangela Justino, an evangelical
Christian and psychologist who was banned from practicing after offering therapy
for individuals seeking exit from homosexual behavior.

Psychology is not a science. It is
one of the most subjective fields of human study. Every individual, whether a
psychologist or not, has views colored by his own ideological preferences,
whether political or religious. Far-left-wing individuals and individuals
practicing witchcraft are very open to homosexuality and very hostile to
Christianity.

If an individual seeks medical care
for a broken leg, every physician attending him will diagnose him with a broken
leg, irrespective of ideological preferences of physician or patient. This is
science.

Yet,
psychologists as Giannini diagnose Christians and conservatives as unfit for
debate, because their personal views are colored by the far-left-wing ideology. Psychologists
with a political background of socialism and with a religious background of
witchcraft will always oppose Christians and support homosexuality. They would
declare Maduro fully fit for debate. This is not science. This is sheer subjectivity.

Similarly, conservative and
Christian psychologists have the same right to diagnose communist-minded psychologists
as unfit for debate.

Positive points in the judge’s injunction:

* It grants full freedom to offer
professional care.

* It condemns censorship.

Negative
point:

*
It agrees with the World Health Organization’s stance that “homosexuality is a
natural variation of the human sexuality.”

Different from the subjective
stance of the Federal Council of Psychology, headed by communist-minded Rogério
Giannini, that says that “homosexuality is not a disease, disturbance or
perversion,” the Christian stance, based on the Bible, is that homosexuality is a perversion causing diseases
and disturbances. Reality is enough to prove it and disprove communist
theories.

In the conflict of opposing subjective
views, the Federal Council of Psychology has allowed communist involvement of
its psychologists, including by funding their trips to communist events, but
has banned Christian involvement of its psychologists.

In this unfair treatment, the U.S.
media has sided with communists to attack Christian and conservative psychologists
in Brazil.

“On Facebook, we believe in equality. We
also believe that love does not need healing.”

Facebook treated homosexuality as a
cage with no exit, with a deceiving propaganda calling the homosexual
perversion “love.” Actually, there is no cure for perversion. Just deliverance.

Communist-minded individuals are outraged
by the judge’s injunction. They are angered that someone is trying to help
people to exit the cage.

Rightly,
Silas Malafaia, a prominent televangelist and Assemblies of God minister in
Brazil, has said in a video that “it is not the therapist, but the patient who
decides what he wants.” He also said that therapist cannot be forbidden from
serving a patient seeking help. Malafaia has a degree in psychology.

If the Federal Council of
Psychology keeps behaving as the communist Venezuela and if Giannini keeps
behaving as Maduro, Christian psychologists will have to leave this dictatorship
to help homosexuals who seek help in the church. For thousands of years, when
there was no psychology, the Christian church helped deliver people from the homosexual
sin. Even Apostle Paul tells of individuals delivered from the homosexual prison
by the power of the Holy Spirit. He said:

“Do you not
know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men
who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. AND SUCH WERE SOME OF
YOU. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11
ESV)

Men
who were involved in the homosexual behavior in the past and repented from it when they accepted Jesus “were washed, sanctified and justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit.” No psychology involved.

Even today, Holy Spirit-filled
Christians with no degree in the subjective field of psychology have helped
homosexuals, thieves, adulterers, liars, swindlers, etc.

The Venezuelan-styled psychology is
insufficient to hinder individuals from seeking and finding help in churches
that do what Jesus did: to preach the Gospel, heal the sick and expel demons.

Real,
Spirit-filled Christianity has had no need of psychology for 2,000 years to
help individuals oppressed by homosexuality. But this is not the issue
regarding Christian psychologists and their associations. The issue is freedom
and censorship.

Communist-minded
individuals are extremely biased, anti-Christian, against full freedom and, of
course, advocates of censorship. If Christians cannot be psychologists, why can
a communist-minded individual head a psychological association?

With
information from DailyMail, BBC, The Huffington Post, ILISP and Venezuelan
Government.